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Bitcoin Worlds preprint

Bitcoin confronts the global monetary order with an unprecedented experiment of absolute scarcity in a system built on elastic credit. Bitcoin’s trajectory will be set less by protocol rules than by governance choices.

I have a new working paper out now. It is available for download at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5445935

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Bitcoin mining using landfill gas - model code

Bitcoin mining using landfill gas - model code

Python code replicates results and reproduces Figures from Rudd et al. 2024. An integrated landfill gas-to-energy and Bitcoin mining framework. Journal of Cleaner Production

Chapter 07. Bitcoin’s role as temporal infrastructure

Chapter 07. Bitcoin’s role as temporal infrastructure

This is the July 2026 draft of chapter 07 in my new book, When Policy Falls Behind: Bitcoin, AI, and the Governance of Fast Systems. Copyright © 2026 by Murray A Rudd. A pdf version of this chapter is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6630139 Introduction Accelerating

Chapter 06. When refusal is not enough: Bitcoin’s quantum migration dilemma

Chapter 06. When refusal is not enough: Bitcoin’s quantum migration dilemma

This is the July 2026 draft of chapter 06 in my new book, When Policy Falls Behind: Bitcoin, AI, and the Governance of Fast Systems. Copyright © 2026 by Murray A Rudd. A pdf version of this chapter is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6693259 Introduction A

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